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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem
in D Minor KV 626

Elena Pavlova ~ Soprano
Miroslava Jordanova ~ Mezzosoprano
Nikolai Varionov ~ Tenor
Plamen Beykov ~ Bass
New Symphony Orchestra Sofia
Concertmaster: Evelina Ancheva
New Symphony Choir Sofia
Chorus-Conductor: Dragomir Josifov

Conductor: Rossen Milanov

Recording Engineer: Ivo Yanev.
Mastering Engineer: Andreas Otto Grimminger.
Title, Design and Artwork: Josef-Stefan Kindler.

A concert-recording from the National Palace of Culture in Sofia (Bulgaria) 1999
Audiofiles, ca. 58 minutes, DDD, KuK 215, EAN 42 6000591 420 7, 2-track-stereo
Available as download-release at Amazon.com
Copyright by K&K Verlagsanstalt anno 2008

















Tracks

1. I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam (Adagio)
2. II. Kyrie eleison (Allegro)
3. III. Sequentia: Dies irae (Allegro assai)
4. III. Sequentia: Tuba mirum (Andante)
5. III. Sequentia: Rex tremendae (Grave)
6. III. Sequentia: Recordare (Andante)
7. III. Sequentia: Confutatis (Andante)
8. III. Sequentia: Lacrymosa (Larghetto)
9. IV. Offertorium: Domine Jesu (Andante)
10. IV. Offertorium: Hostias et preces (Larghetto)
11. IV. Offertorium: Quam olim Abrahae (Andante)
12. V. Sanctus: Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Adagio)
13. VI. Benedictus (Andante)
14. VII. Agnus Dei (Larghetto)
15. VIII. Communio: Lux aeterna (Adagio, Allegro)
















The New Symphony Orchestra and Choir Sofia was founded in 1991 by the music critic Julia Hristova, its current president. The orchestra was established as an alternative organisation to the state subsidized cultural institutions in Bulgaria. It recruits young musicians offering them professional field, where sharing their skills, new chances and opportunities to play music and create a flowering of more kinds of music in more people's lives. Since 1997 the orchestra is directed by Rossen Milanov.

Rossen Milanov is one of two conductors of the New Symphony Orchestra Sofia. He currently works at academies and orchestras in the United States and Bulgaria. Mr. Milanov won many awards ("Orchestra of the Year 1998" for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, "Adventurous Programing" for originality in concert programing of the American Symphony Orchestras League a.o.) and teaches at the State Musical Academy Sofia, the Juilliard School New York and the Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia. He is the music director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra - and: The New Symphony Orchestra Sofia. He toured with the Colorado Symphony, the Lima Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, for example, and performed at the Grant Park Music Festival (Chicago), Recontres Musicales d´Evian (France) and the New Year´s Festival (Sofia). Mr. Milanov is cover conductor for Franz-Welser Most with the Cleveland Orchestra and member of the conducting facility of Juilliard School.

"... One need not to perform concerts for the sake of biography of vanity and narcissism. You have to be incredibly honest towards Music, towards your colleagues, because all together you will burn with desire of creating something really beautiful. One should not be forced playing brilliant music, as should not be forced falling in love. You have to dissolve yourself in Music, reveal yourself, and take out the intimate capacity, to the end, at last to devote yourself. And that is what means to be in love with Music..."

Rossen Milanov



















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Andreas Otto Grimminger & Josef-Stefan Kindler, K&K Verlagsanstalt


















Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Requiem
for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
in D Minor, K. 626


I. Introitus


(1.) Requiem aeternam:
Chorus & Soprano Solo

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis,
te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion,
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem;

exaudi orationem meam,
ad te omnis caro veniet.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.


II. Kyrie


(2.) Kyrie eleison:
Chorus

Kyrie eleison,
Christe eleison,
Kyrie eleison.


III. Sequentia


(3.) Dies irae:
Chorus

Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla,
teste David cum Sybilla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando judex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus.


(4.) Tuba mirum:
Soli

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
per sepulchra regionum,
coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
cum resurget creatura,
judicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,
in quo totum continetur,
unde mundus judicetur.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet apparebit,
nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
quem patronum rogaturus,
cum vix justus sit securus?


(5.) Rex tremendae:
Chorus

Rex tremandae maiestatis,
qui salvandos salvas gratis,
salva me, fons pietatis.


(6.) Recordare:
Soli

Recordare Jesu pie,
quod sum causa tuae viae,
ne me perdas illa die.

Quaerens me sedisti lassus,
redemisti crucem passus;
tantus labor non sit cassus.

Juste judex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis
ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco tanquam reus,
culpa rubet vultus meus;
supplicanti parce Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,
et latronem exaudisti,
mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meae non sum dignae,
sed tu, bonus, fac benigne,
ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum praesta,
et ab hoedis me sequestra,
statuens in parte dextra.


(7.) Confutatis:
Chorus

Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis,
voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
cor contritum quasi cinis,
gere curam mei finis.


(8.) Lacrymosa:
Chorus

Lacrymosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.

Huic ergo parce Deus,
pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem!
Amen!


IV. Offertorium


(9.) Domine Jesu:
Chorus & Soli

Domine Jesu Christe! Rex gloriae!
Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum
de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu!

Libera eas de ore leonis,
ne absorbeat eas Tartarus,
ne cadant in obscurum:
sed signifer sanctus Michael
repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam,


(10.) Hostias et preces:
Chorus

Hostias et preces tibi,
Domine, laudis offerimus.

Tu suscipe pro animabus illis,
quarum hodie memoriam facimus:

fac eas, Domine,
de morte transire ad vitam,


(11.) Quam olim Abrahae:
Chorus

quam olim Abrahae promisisti,
et semini ejus.


V. Sanctus


(12.) Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth:
Chorus

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth!
pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Osanna in excelsis.


VI. Benedictus


(13.) Benedictus:
Soli & Chorus

Benedictus,
qui venit in nomine Domini.
Osanna in excelsis.


VII. Agnus Dei


(14.) Agnus Dei:
Chorus

Agnus Dei,
qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem.

Agnus Dei,
qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem sempiternam.


VIII. Communio


(15.) Lux aeterna:
Chorus & Soprano Solo

Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Amen.